Volume 33, Number 4 · March 13, 1986
Clinching the Case
By Francis Russell
In writing about the Sacco-Vanzetti case I have long been struck by the thought that there were those still living who knew the truth, who knew the identity of the two killers who shot down the paymaster and his guard on that long ago April 1920 afternoon in South Braintree, Massachusetts, knew who the other three men were who sped away with them and the payroll money in the getaway car. Elderly people now—as I wrote in the foreword to the 1971 edition of my Tragedy in Dedham, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the trial—they were 'still tenaciously prepared to carry the weight of their secret to the grave.' Barring a sudden revelation by one of them, I did not see how any more clarity could be added to the case.
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